The Cleveland Cavaliers have hired former UCSB women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb as an assistant on head coach John Beilein’s staff.
In a breakthrough for women in coaching, Gottlieb joins Becky Hammond of the San Antonio Spurs as the only active female assistant coaches in the NBA and is the first women’s college basketball coach to be brought on to an NBA staff.
Gottlieb guided the Gauchos from 2008-2011 and was named 2009 Big West Coach of the Year before beginning an eight-year stint as head coach at UC Berkeley.